ELEM:Reward-Books Returned

[Genese Mikkelsen <genese@casstel.net>]

I "created" a program last year which I would like to share. It is
called STAR

Start Taking All Responsibility

I decorated the circ desk with shiny stars and made a large star for
each class.  The stars hung from fishing line.  On the large class star
was the teacher's name and the statement, "We returned all of our
library books on time!"  The stars hang from the teacher's name pencil
(very visible in the hall in front of each room) when the class has
returned all of their books.  I gave until the following morning as the
"grace" period.  Absentees did not count against the class.  Stars of
the classes not returning all of their books were placed in the
classroom with a star with unhappy face - "grounded star"

Emphasis was placed on finding a safe place for library books at home
and taking responsiblity for remembering to bring them back on library
day.

I kept track of the number of times each class earned their star and at
the end of each quarter, the two leading classes came in for special
storytime, popcorn and lots of praise and how proud we are of their
responsibility- teachers got free time (incentive to remind students!).

I will do it again this year, but put the hanging and unhanging of the
star on the teacher.  It worked best with 1st and 2 nd graders.  I may
extend it to Kindergarten this year if the teachers will agree to do the
keeping track of times all books were returned.

Genese Mikkelsen
Media Specialist
Raymore-Peculiar District
Peculiar and Stonegate Elementary Schools
Peculiar and Raymore, MO
genese@casstel.net

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